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<p>Yes, that was mikemac on the “tips for succeeding…” thread. I read some of that book last summer. imo that book will only work for north campus courses, but if you find that it has helped you, than (as Adam Robinson himself said) “you can’t argue with success.” (but he was talking about all-nighters when he used that phrase).</p>
<p>@ashiundar–thanks for that website; I’ll have a look</p>
<p>on a different point:</p>
<p>As Futureucladoctor said, the textbook can be much more important than the lectures. One particular fault of mine (that I realized rather late) has been that I’ve been under the feeling that right after a lecture, I should be able to understand the material, and if not, then something went wrong. So I know now that the prof has to be amazing for that to actually be true. Sincere effort on your own accord is the only way.</p>
<p>At my orientation (this was 2009), Prof. Wesel told us a short story about when Bill Gates was a kid. His parents wondered why he always seemed tired during the day. As it turned out, he was sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night to snag computer time. Personally, I feel like it’s that attitude that you need in order to keep you going: “There may be stumbling-blocks along the way, but I want the end-result so badly that I am wiling to sneak out in the middle of the night in order to pursue it!”</p>
<p>And as my ap physics teacher used to say, “You need a sense of humor to get through it.” And one other time she said you needed a classmate’s phone number in every science class. But that’s really all that she said you needed: a sense of humor and a classmate’s phone number. And imo, it’s all the better if that classmate happens to be a cute girl. 
Then you would be study partners with benefits.</p>